Preferred Citation Note

Extent

12 boxes.

Biography/History

Born Pierre Camille Lucien Hilaire Jean Bellocq on Nov. 25, 1926, in Bedenac, France, the artist who pens his work as "Peb" placed his collection of sketches, drawings, comic strips, cartoons and caricatures of the equine industry at the Keeneland Library in the fall of 2009.

Peb began sketching horse racing professionally in 1954 when he was hired by Maryland's Laurel Park to sketch drawings for the inaugural running of the Washington, D. C. International Stakes. In 1955, he joined the Morning Telegraph, a daily newspaper on horse racing, as the publication's cartoonist. When the Daily Racing Form, a national newspaper, absorbed the Morning Telegraph, which published for an Eastern U. S. audience, Peb's work became very widely known. Now in partial retirement, Peb produces front cover, full-color illustrations for the Daily Racing Form's coverage of signal Thoroughbred events such as the Kentucky Derby and the Breeder's Cup.

Scope and Content

The Peb Collection includes approximately 4,000 original works of art, including caricatures of racing luminaries, both human and equine, as well as cartoons celebrating major racing events. Most of the art was published in the Morning Telegraph and the Daily Racing Form, and the rest are studies or sketches for murals or paintings. The collection includes work in pen and ink, water color, chalk, acrylic, pencil mostly on paper or board stock. Peb organized the work in logical categories based on media, dates and subjects.

Subjects

Bellocq, Pierre "Peb"

Horse Racing -- Kentucky.

Horse Racing -- Kentucky - Lexington

Keeneland Racing Association Library.

User Restrictions

The physical rights to the materials in this collection are held by the Keeneland Racing Association Library.

Collection Inventory

Jockeys

Scope and Content Note:

Box One comprises original black and white pen and ink drawings as well as pen and ink with watercolor drawings that feature jockeys. The sizes vary as well as the amount of work put into each piece.

This box features Black and White Jockeys, Color Jockeys and Women Jockeys. The differences are noted in the prefix to the numbers. Jockeys in color are represented by JC followed by a number, Jockeys in Black and White are listed as JBW followed by a number, and the Women Jockeys are listed as WJ followed by a number. The Women Jockeys are also Black and White but do not contain the BW in their prefix; nor is it reflected in the corresponding images.

Legend for reading the entries:

Creator: Pierre Bellocq "Peb"

JC#### is the unique identifier for the Color Jockeys artwork

JBW#### is the unique identifier for the Black and White Jockeys

WJ#### is the unique identifier for the Women Jockeys

GJBW#### is the unique identifier for Group Jockeys Black and White

"title" means that this is the title that Peb put on the cartoon. Some titles include dates.

Title with no quotations. This is an assigned title.

(names, places, etc.) the first batch of subject headings are usually the subjects that are specifically named or pictured in the artwork

(names, generic subjects, places, etc.) the second batch of subject headings are more generic and are designed to locate general themes once the finding aid is aggregated in the KDL.

Trainers

Scope and Content Note:

Box two comprises original black and white pen and ink drawings as well as pen and ink with watercolor that feature Trainers. The sizes vary as well as the amount of work put into each piece.

This box features black and white Trainers, pen and ink Trainers, and color Trainers. The differences are noted in the prefix to the numbers. Trainers in color are represented by TRC followed by a number. The black and white Trainers are listed as TR followed by a number.

Legend for reading the entries:

Creator: Pierre Bellocq "Peb"

TR#### is the unique identifier for the black and white Trainers artwork

TRC#### is the unique identifier for the color Trainers artwork

"title" means that this is the title that Peb put on the cartoon. Some titles include dates.

Title with no quotations. This is an assigned title.

(names, places, etc.) the first batch of subject headings are usually the subjects that are specifically named or pictured in the artwork

(names, generic subjects, places, etc.) the second batch of subject headings are more generic and are designed to locate general themes once the finding aid is aggregated in the KDL.

Peter "Pistol Pete" Ferriola

Scope and Content Note:

Owners

Scope and Content Note:

Box Five features Owners. It is comprised of original black and white, pen and ink drawings, and pen and ink with watercolor pieces. The sizes vary as well as the amount of work put into each piece.

This box features black and white Owners and color Owners but are both listed by the prefix OW and followed by a number. The black and white Owners are OW3000-OW3184 and the color Owners are OW3200-OW3223. The Owners that are done in color are reflected in their prefix.

Legend for reading the entries:

Creator: Pierre Bellocq "Peb"

OW#### is the unique identifier for the artwork

"title" means that this is the title that Peb put on the cartoon. Some titles include dates.

Title with no quotations. This is an assigned title.

(names, places, etc.) the first batch of subject headings are usually the subjects that are specifically named or pictured in the artwork

(names, generic subjects, places, etc.) the second batch of subject headings are more generic and are designed to locate general themes once the finding aid is aggregated in the KDL.

Scope and Content Note:

Kenneth "Kenny" Noe, Jr

Scope and Content Note:

(Chairman, President, General Manager; Racetrack; Associations, Organizations, NYRA, New York Racing Industry, New York Breeding Industry, New York Thoroughbred Industry)
14.75 x 10
Pen and Ink with Watercolor

Peb Equine Comedy Cartoons, 1950s and 1960s

Scope and Content Note:

Box 8 is comprised of Equine Comedy Cartoons from the 1950s and 1960s. They are Black and White, Pen and Ink drawings as well as a number of Prints. The sizes vary as well as the amount of work put into each piece.

The black and white, pen and ink Equine Comedy Cartoons are represented by the prefix EC followed by a number. The Prints also have the prefix EC and a number with no indication that they are Prints, however they are labeled as such in the finding aid.

Legend for reading the entries:

Creator: Pierre Bellocq "Peb"

EC#### is the unique identifier for the artwork

"title" means that this is the title that Peb put on the cartoon. Some titles include dates.

Title with no quotations. This is an assigned title.

(names, places, etc.) the first batch of subject headings are usually the subjects that are specifically named or pictured in the artwork

(names, generic subjects, places, etc.) the second batch of subject headings are more generic and are designed to locate general themes once the finding aid is aggregated in the KDL.